Ketamine use linked to cystitis

A newly-published article in Journal of Medical Case Reportsdescribes the case of a 20-year-old man who had suffered from urinary frequency, nocturia, urgency, suprapubic discomfort during micturition and episodes of severe haematuria for seven months. The symptoms had started shortly after he began weekly use of ketamine, a dissociative anaesthetic increasingly used as a recreational drug by young adults. Antibiotics and anticholinergics had not improved the symptoms.

Ketamine-associated cystitis has been reported among daily users of ketamine, but this is the first report in a patient who used the drug less frequently.

Read the full report for more information, including details of the previous cases of ketamine-associated cystitis.